Marilyn Miller

Professor - Spanish & Portuguese

Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
  • Caribbean
  • South America
Marilyn Miller

Courses

Social Problems in Latin America; Migrations; Caribbean Migrations; Caribbean Realisms; Performing Latino Identities; Rumba to Reggaetón; Latin American Cultural Studies; Film and Visual Culture in Latin America; Hispanic Cities: Buenos Aires; Havana; Buenos Aires, Cádiz; El Caribe a Flote; Jewish Latin American Cultural Expressions; Holocaust Consciousness in Latin America

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 6

Research

Caribbean Literatures and Cultures; Jewish Latin American Studies; New World and Trans-Atlantic Studies; Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures; Race and Hybridity; Slavery and Text; African Diasporic Literatures and Poetics in the Americas; Tango and other popular music

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Oregon, Comparative Literature
  • M.A., University of Oregon, Comparative Literature
  • M.A., University of Washington, English Literature

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Professor, Tulane, 2021-
  • Sizeler Professor in Jewish Studies, Tulane, 2017-
  • Associate Professor, Tulane, 2005-
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2001-2005
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 2002
  • Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America, 1997-2001

Distinctions

  • Research Fellow, Fordham Dept. of Judaic Studies-NYPL Library (in residence), Cuban Independence Leader José Martí and his Jewish Supporters. 2024.
  • Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar, "Jewish Responses to the Holocaust", United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, 2024.
  • Annual ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute for Curriculum Development in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies, 2023.
  • NEH Summer Institute: José Martí and the Florida Immigrant Communities, University of Tampa, 2023
  • Fulbright Flexible Teaching-Research Fellowship in Argentina, 2016-2017

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • French

Overseas Experience

  • Cuba
  • Puerto Rico
  • Argentina
  • Ecuador
  • Spain
  • Mexico

Related Experience

  • Co-Coordinator, Tropical Exposures: Photography, Film and Visual Culture in a Caribbean Frame conference, Tulane University, 2016
  • Resident Co-Director, Tulane Summer in Argentina, 2016
  • Resident Director, Tulane Semester in Cuba, 2012, 2015
  • Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University, 2009-2012
  • Member of Editorial and Review Boards for “Comparative Literature,” “Revista de Estudios Hispánicos,” and “Latin American Music Review,” “Latino Studies,” and the Palgrave Series in Latin American Music and Literature
  • Coordinator, Virtual Caribbeans Conference, Tulane University, 2008
  • Co-coordinator for the symposium “Re/Viewing the Revolution: Fresh Perspectives on Cuba, 1959-2009,” Tulane University, 2009
  • Director, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, Catholic University of America, 1997-2001

Selected Publications

  • 2024. Eduardo Halfon and the Itinerary of Memory. Vanderbilt University Press.
  • 2024. “Fear and Loving in Matanzas: Emotional Extremis in the Works of Juan Francisco Manzano.” For the edited volume Slavery, Literature and the Emotions. Madeline Dobie, ed. John Benjamins Press.
  • 2024. Review of Tarica, Estelle. Holocaust Consciousness in Latin America. SUNY Press, 2022. Latin American Literary Review 51, vol. 102, 194-196.
  • 2023. “Hard Time in the Big Easy: The Unique Role of New Orleans in WWII Enemy Alien Internment.” Internment Camps. Austrian Society of Exile Studies, 287-302.
  • 2022. “Holocaust Memories and Ecstatic Truth in Eduardo Halfon's "A Speech at Póvoa." In Memories of Displacement: Migration, identity and emotion in the era of transculture, Camila Seixas e Sousa, et al, org. Edições Humus, 57-71.
  • 2021. Port of No Return. Enemy Alien Internment in World War II New Orleans. Louisiana State University Press, 2021.
  • 2020. "Lessons for the Present from the Alien Enemy Act and the Deportation of Latin Americans to the United States during World War II" Tabula rasa 33, enero-marzo 2020.
  • 2019. “‘Allá en Tierras del Sur’: Horror and Recoil in José Martí’s New Orleans.” The global South 13.1: 12–32.
  • 2019. "From Dancing to Dying in the Streets: Somaesthetics of the Cuban Revolution in Memories of Underdevelopment and Juan of the Dead." In Bodies in the Streets, Richard Shusterman, editor, Brill, 2019, 130-149.
  • 2017. “Racial Pathology, Resistance, and Recovery in the Queloides and Drapetomanía Exhibitions.” Afro-Hispanic Review.
  • 2017. “Movimiento y estasis en los viajes interamericanos de José Martí.” Boletín de Literatura Comparada 42.
  • 2017. “Roberto Diago and the Past in Present Times” ArtonCuba, September-November.
  • 2017. “El funyi de Gardel. Cada día luce mejor.” In Pasado de moda, edited by Regina Root and Susan Hallstead, Ampersand, 172-187.
  • 2016. “Sardonic Recurrence and Barking Dogs in Julio Cortázar's Library of Tangos.” Hispanic Review 84(1): 1-23.
  • 2015. “Padura transatlántico.” A contracorriente 13(1): 105-27.
  • 2015. “Ringside with Cuba's National Poet.” Hispania 98(1): 123-38.